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What to do About My Cockatiels Cloudy Eyes?

G’morning Mitch,

I love to read your Sunday Birdie Brunch and look forward to receiving it each week.

Dusty is just about 3 years old. She is active, interactive, alert, happy, healthy, and sees the vet at least once a year. We feed her Kaytee ‘Healthy Support Diet’ food for cockatiels mixed with Vita Prima ‘sunscription’ conure formula.

Both are seeds and pellets. We put 2 drops of vitamins in her water in the morning with plain water during the day and evening.

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Your Bird’s Beak – What You Didn’t Know

First, a little semantic housekeeping in these modern times of ornithology. The term beak & bill can be used interchangeably – or so I’m told.

Our new economical bird nail trimmer has become very popular once pet bird keepers realized how easy it was to trim their own birds nails while saving money at the same time.

From time to time we do have people asking about trimming their bird beaks because they appear to be a little too long or may exhibit a “bump”.

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Your Bird is Bleeding or Oil Soaked - Now What?

Your Bird is Bleeding or Oil Soaked – Now What?

Let’s circle back to first aid. Now that you’ve taken the time to build your own bird first aid kit, (you did right?) it’s important to remember the basics.

Once you’ve assembled all the tools for your bird first aid kit you should wash them with antibacterial soap or clean them with a steam cleaner and then wrap them in washcloths prior to storage.

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Where to Put a Swing and How to Get a Bird Used to It

Mitch Rezman
July 12, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Habitats for caged birds
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Recently I visited a customer to deliver an order and was invited to come in and see their new rescued Macaw named Paulie. A beautiful Scarlet in a huge Prevue 3155 cage, the top third was loaded with toys and a large Booda Rope Swing. They said the macaw had not used the swing set, as he seemed to be intimidated by the movement of it so it hung pristine and lonely.

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DYK – Your Bird Keeps Better Time than a Swiss Watch?

Mitch Rezman
June 20, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Supplies Info
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Quick, say “diurnal, circadian, or photoperiodic clock” five times fast. And that my friend explains how your bird can tell time. Although your bird cannot tell what day it is it does know what the month is of each year using its circannual (calendar) clock. It actually knows the precise time of day (just not what day it is).

iPhone might have Siri but with no Internet connection whatsoever your bird gets “messaged” on a regular basis, indicating the proper times to change feathers (molt), when to breed, and with migrating birds, when to migrate.

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6 Reasons Summer is Dangerous for Your Bird

We talk about parrots being equatorial animals and how life in North America, for example, screws up their instinctual expectations for things like light cycles and temperature.

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A blue and yellow macaw performs a trick involving a toy car at the KL Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

6 How To’s for Terrestrial Travel with Your Bird

Mitch Rezman
June 7, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / The Traveling Bird
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Air travel with your bird is a post all it’s own so today we’ll focus on terrestrial travel.

We are moving all comments from the old style blog to this new fancy schmancy one, by hand. Any comments made today and moving forward, will be made under your own profile. We apologize for any confusion and hope this new format will help make us all better caged bird keepers.
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Practice Makes Perfect When It Comes to Bird Towel Restraint

Mastering the art of safe and noninvasive restraint techniques for your companion bird is essential for proper grooming and emergency first aid procedures.

One of the primary lessons in our Parrot Life Seminars is a demonstration of proper towel restraint for various species of birds.

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Close up of a Red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus) foot, holding the cage with its claws

Has Wing Clipping Damaged Your Bird’s Feet?

Mitch Rezman
May 22, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Rescue / Flight
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Lately, I have been villainized, accused of being self-righteous, and generally disdained by all the people who feel clipping their bird’s wings is the right thing to do.

So I proudly wear the Scarlet (Macaw) letter “F” (for Flighted) on my chest.

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Bird Parasites, Cage Litter And The Great Wing Clipping Debate

Mitch Rezman
May 17, 2014
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Flight
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How do you know if your bird has mites? Excessive scratching could be the first clue, but that could also be attributed to dry skin. The simplest method is to take a piece of white computer paper and hold it under your bird’s main perch. Then tap, tap, tap hard on the perch with something like a wooden spoon. If you see small red dot “crawly things” on the paper, those would be mites. If you’re in doubt a visit to the vet would be in order.

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Your Bird’s Beak – What You Didn’t Know

Your Bird is Bleeding or Oil Soaked – Now What?

Where to Put a Swing and How to Get a Bird Used to It

DYK – Your Bird Keeps Better Time than a Swiss Watch?

6 Reasons Summer is Dangerous for Your Bird

6 How To’s for Terrestrial Travel with Your Bird

Practice Makes Perfect When It Comes to Bird Towel Restraint

Has Wing Clipping Damaged Your Bird’s Feet?

Bird Parasites, Cage Litter And The Great Wing Clipping Debate

Since 1993Online in 2002

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Toll Free877 ~ 287 ~ 0810

618 E Commercial Ave,Lowell, IN 46356 USA

Since 1993
Online in 2002

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$7 Ships Small

Toll Free
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618 E Commercial Ave,
Lowell, IN 46356 USA